How to increase Windows 10 clipboard history?

Windows 10 has this new feature that can be enable and then save last "copy". After, when clicking on ⊞ Win+V, I can view the history of my last copies.

Is there a way to increase this copy history list? Default list shows only the last 20 copies.

This is the history clipboard:

https://www.howtogeek.com/351978/using-windows-10s-new-clipboard-history-and-cloud-sync/

Yuval Levy

Posted 2019-11-11T15:55:31.147

Reputation: 129

What do you mean by increase? The clipboard history had all previous clipboard content item since logon. I don't think there is a hard limit. – Peter Hahndorf – 2019-11-11T20:07:16.570

it snows only the latest 20 copies.. – Yuval Levy – 2019-11-11T23:47:17.113

See https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/4464215 "Your clipboard history is limited to 25 copied entries. Older items—unless they're pinned—are removed automatically to make room for new clipboard items." You may need to use a 3rd party tool for more than 25 items.

– Ganesh R. – 2019-11-12T00:07:05.273

2@YuvalLevy - 20? 25? this is valuable information and should be part of the question – Peter Hahndorf – 2019-11-12T07:47:16.397

Answers

The new Windows clipboard is still too new to be hackable. It has also not externalized its functional parameters in the registry as yet.

All that is known about it is that it is enabled via:

Settings > System > Clipboard
Group Policy (gpedit.msc) in
Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > OS Policies > Allow Clipboard History
In the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows by the values AllowClipboardHistory and AllowCroosDeviceClipboard.

That just about sums everything that is known. We don't know any way of extending its size beyond 25, as specified in Microsoft's article Get help with clipboard, and there is also no way to move or extend its window from the bottom-right of the screen.

For more functionality, one is today still obliged to use third-party products, of which there are many.

You may find some lists with reviews in the articles:

10 best Clipboard managers for Windows 10 (updated 2019)
Best Free Clipboard Replacement Utility (updated 2016)

These lists are missing my favorite of the open-source ClipAngel.

harrymc

Posted 2019-11-11T15:55:31.147

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I don't think you can actually increase your clipboard history so your best bet is to use a third party program like a cloud based archive. You can find other clipboard programs here.

Emile

Posted 2019-11-11T15:55:31.147

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I agree with the above answers but as an alternative I am already using FARR (Find and Run Robot) with KlipKeeper for clipboard history of around 100 clips. Extremely easy to use and fast, alot of customization options and many more plugins available. FARR and KilpKeeper are both available for free. KlipKeeper can also paste the string as well as copy to clipboard.

Raza

Posted 2019-11-11T15:55:31.147

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